[DUG] Check if allowed to save to a location

[Jeremy North]

Actually that forum is german.

How often are you expecting it to fail though. Might be quicker to
just do it and test if it fails. Although I guess if you can't write
to it and it exists are you then wanting to move it to the profile
folder?

On 2/1/07, Phil Middlemiss <phil at tumonz.co.nz> wrote:
> It's not as simple as that. This for updating an installed product that
> may have been installed by a user with admin privileges but being used
> and updated by a user.
>
> Nevertheless, I have found a lovely bit of code at this link here:
>
> http://www.delphipraxis.net/post625364.html
>
> but the forum is dutch so I'm not even sure what the name of the person
> who posted it is!
>
> Phil.
>
> Jeremy North wrote:
> > Try it and trap the exception.
> > Really you should be writing all information to the users profile
> > directory anyway. Unless you have to support OS versions that don't
> > support it but you can test for those versions before hand anyway.
> >
> > On 2/1/07, Phil Middlemiss <phil at tumonz.co.nz> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> What is the correct way to determine if my application is allowed to
> >> write to a particular directory? That is, there are two locations I want
> >> to create a file - one is the install directory, which the user may not
> >> have write privileges to, and the other is in their Documents and
> >> Settings which is the second choice of where to save it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Phil.
> >>
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